James Demmel
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James Weldon Demmel Jr. (born October 19, 1955) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, the Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
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Born | James Weldon Demmel Jr. (1955-10-19) October 19, 1955 (age 68) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (B.S.,1975) University of California, Berkeley (PhD.,1983) |
Known for | LAPACK |
Spouse | Katherine Yelick |
Awards | ACM Fellow (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematician computer scientist |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | A Numerical Analyst's Jordan Canonical Form (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | William Kahan |
Doctoral students | Sherry Li |
Website | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/ |
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In 1999, Demmel was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing.